On January 17, Actionable Intelligence hosted a webinar looking back on 2016—the most transformative year yet in the office imaging industry—and exploring what lies ahead for the industry in 2017.
In 2016, continued declining demand for certain classes of products put stress on already-stressed market segments. The industry’s overcapacity had a transformative effect on printer, copier, and supplies vendors, resulting in a year full of key mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring. Amid seismic shifts in the competitive landscape, OEMs introduced scores of innovative new devices, challenging the third-party supplies industry to keep pace as the market further matured. Meanwhile, lawsuits, especially those between the OEMs and those marketing third-party supplies, continued to affect the market.
The webinar was…